‘It is a failure of Muslim Personal Law board’, Prof Soz on Triple Talaq

December 30, 2017, 11:44 AM IST

Srinagar: Former Union Minister and senior Congress leader Prof Saifuddin Soz said that The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has failed to help women victims of triple talaq he alleges that AIMPLB has been functioning arbitrarily and totally undemocratically.

In a statement here on Friday afternoon, the former chief of J&K PCC said now that Parliament has declared ‘Triple Divorce in one-go’ as criminal offence, the Board must do a serious thinking on its future.

“I am one of those persons, who tried to show utmost respect to the All India Muslim Personal Law Board all these years, although I had serious reservations on the functioning of the Board.

The Board had been functioning arbitrarily and totally undemocratically all these years, leaving the victim Muslim women to fend for themselves in courts, miserably and helplessly,” he said.

The Board must set its house in order by proving its representative character and adopting democratic and transparent methods in future, Prof Soz added.